All posts in the topic Mobile presentation gear - what would you use today? (Short link)
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- Latest post made by Dave Witzel at Apr 25 13:58 UTC
E-Democracy.Org will be hosting 5 citizen media and online engagement outreach
events across rural Minnesota.
We have a modest budget for gear. I am interested in what we can demonstrate
that makes citizen media production highly accessible as well as what we need
to capture decent quality video/audio for on-demand or even live webcast
access.
What would you put together for $2,000 US (assuming you already have a laptop)?
Assume the location used has electricity. :-)
Steven Clift
E-Democracy.Org
I'm afraid I don't have any experience in this except for media consumption, but it might help to get the ball rolling anyway. I guess it depends on the context (i.e. citizens' technical abilities, indoors or outdoors coverage, who's going to be consuming the media, etc), but Laughing Squid (http://laughingsquid.com/) springs to mind for its recent video coverage of the Olympic Torch in San Francisco (see http://flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/sets/72157604458841560/). This was mostly done with just one of these Flip Video Ultras (http://www.theflip.com/products_flip_ultra.shtml) and Flickr's new Video service (http://www.flickr.com/help/video/). The Flip Ultra looks very smooth and usable (and I'm wishing they were available over here in the UK too now), while Flickr's 90-second limit on video length keeps things short and sweet - although this is probably only useful if you want to limit yourself to "snippets" (edited or otherwise). Again, I think this depends partly on the audience, and partly on how much effort citizens want to put into editing and the like. For streaming, you might want to take a look at Qik (http://qik.com/) - I've not used it, but it seems fairly popular with people. Hope that helps, sorry it's not more specific :) - Graham
Thanks Graham. We are definitely for a new projector that does well in all sorts of lighting situations. One with decent speakers would be useful as well. Any suggestions? Two interesting items that we've picked up to hopefully more systematically record decent audio at events is a Pyle Pro PDWM4300 or a four mic wireless system (two lapel mics for presenters and two regular mics for the audience/panels) (we managed to find it for around $100 ... haven't tested it yet. I could see us connecting the audio to one our personal Video Camcorders with the right adapters. We also pick up for $50 a LightSnake which allows you to connect a XLR microphone to USB. So even if we don't us a public address system we should be able to grab podcastable audio from our events. Because we are zooming around rural Minnesota we are trying to figure out which mobile provider provides higher bandwidth across the state at the right price. Unfortunately, it looks like datacards require a 2 year contract - BOO! While I always assume with presentations that the Net connection just won't work and put everything in PowerPoint, we'd like the ability to bring in a remote guest via video Skype or Sightspeed (or others two video services you might recommend) as well as the demo some stuff in real-time when we use a workshop format. It would also be fun to webcast some discussions live around the state and far beyond. Has anyone tried http://www.mogulus.com or http://www.flixwagon.com or http://operator11.com or http://www.ustream.tv ? Cheers, Steven Clift P.S. We so have 6 month old FlipVideo recorder. It works great in lower light compared to other tools. Now all we need is David Wilcox's short interview style talent! http://partnerships.typepad.com/civic/2006/03/for_collaborati.html
I was going to mention the Flip. I played with one at Christmas but we dropped it in the ocean. not so waterproof... dave On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Steven Clift <clift@publicus.net> wrote: > Thanks Graham. > > We are definitely for a new projector that does well in all sorts of lighting situations. One with decent speakers would be useful as well. Any suggestions? > > Two interesting items that we've picked up to hopefully more systematically record decent audio at events is a Pyle Pro PDWM4300 or a four mic wireless system (two lapel mics for presenters and two regular mics for the audience/panels) (we managed to find it for around $100 ... haven't tested it yet. I could see us connecting the audio to one our personal Video Camcorders with the right adapters. We also pick up for $50 a LightSnake which allows you to connect a XLR microphone to USB. So even if we don't us a public address system we should be able to grab podcastable audio from our events. > > Because we are zooming around rural Minnesota we are trying to figure out which mobile provider provides higher bandwidth across the state at the right price. Unfortunately, it looks like datacards require a 2 year contract - BOO! While I always assume with presentations that the Net connection just won't work and put everything in PowerPoint, we'd like the ability to bring in a remote guest via video Skype or Sightspeed (or others two video services you might recommend) as well as the demo some stuff in real-time when we use a workshop format. > > It would also be fun to webcast some discussions live around the state and far beyond. Has anyone tried http://www.mogulus.com or http://www.flixwagon.com or http://operator11.com or http://www.ustream.tv ? > > Cheers, > Steven Clift > > P.S. We so have 6 month old FlipVideo recorder. It works great in lower light compared to other tools. Now all we need is David Wilcox's short interview style talent! http://partnerships.typepad.com/civic/2006/03/for_collaborati.html